Relating convective and stratiform rain to latent heating

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1874-1893

  Tao, Wei Kuo ^a   Lang, Stephen ^a,b   Zeng, Xiping ^a,c   Shige, Shoichi ^d   Takayabu, Yukari ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROCESS; CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; CONDITIONAL RAIN; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE RAIN; EDDY HEAT FLUXES; EXTREME EVENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION DATA; PRECIPITATION RADAR; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; RAIN PROBABILITY; RAIN RATES; RAIN-INTENSITY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS; TWO SOURCES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; HEATING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; RAIN GAGES;

RAIN;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; LATENT HEAT FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SKEWNESS; STRATIFORM CLOUD; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953709186     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3278.1     Document Type: Article

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